Nora D. Volkow

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed functional magnetic resonance imaging with a delay discounting (DD) task to examine the association between impulsive choice and altered neural mechanisms in obesity, and found that the aberrant function and connectivity in core regions of ECN and striatal brain reward regions underpin the greater impulsivity in obesity.

TL;DR: Informing physicians who prescribe opioids about opioid-linked deaths in their practice reduces future opioid prescribing, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

TL;DR: This work illuminates the mechanisms whereby belief can influence nonconscious learned association by modulating how the brain performs risk decisions while under the effects of nicotine.

TL;DR: The factor analyses revealed three factors that accounted for most of the variability in the data and could be interpreted as a low versus high frequency, a beta frequency, and a frontal versus posterior factor.